QualiFLY – 3rd Project Meeting Dublin, 8-10 May 2006 Contact: Maren Elfert, UNESCO Institute for Education,

Working with parents The FLY project in Hamburg Contact: Maren Elfert, UNESCO Institute for Education, Dr. Gabriele Rabkin, Landesinstitut für Lehrerbildung,

Ways of working with parents 1) How we recruit parents 2) Activities with parents and children in the classroom 3) Separate parents‘ sessions 4) Joint children/parents‘ activities outside school 5) How we keep parents on the programme 6) Literacy suitcase for parents

1) How we recruit parents Parents‘ evenings Parents are contacted by headmaster, teachers and other people involved Advocacy work (exhibitions, posters in the schools)

2) Activities with parents and children in the classroom Reading books Literacy games Working sheets (folder) Special events (e.g. drumming with a musician, inviting a policeman)

3) Separate parents‘ sessions Parents create a folder for their child Parents write stories illustrated by family photos Presentation of „products“ in public

4) Joint children/parents‘ activities outside school Literacy walks Visit of a museum, a market, library, post office etc.

5. How we keep parents on the programme Contact parents in different ways: Daily reminders by class teachers (telephone calls) Parents‘ visiting days Attendance lists Certificates

Involvement of native speaking „key persons“ Pressure: „You must come“ Private contacts of mothers among each other Children push their parents to come Perspective: Make participation of children with severe needs and their parent obligatory How we keep parents on the programme

6. New project: Literacy suitcase for parents (with special funds)

A Turkish mother tried out a recipe from a cookbook in the suitcase.

She prepared little cakes for all the children in the class